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- God of evening star. A252
- Sun at night closes doors. In evening goes home and shuts doors and windows. A722.4
- Origin of Evening Star. A781.2
- Sun, moon, and stars bring forth first parents. Sun and moon beget son; morning and evening star beget daughter; these, the first parents, are at first without understanding, but it is awakened later by demigods. A1271.1
- Young man issues from conch-shell every evening. D621.6
- Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman. E211.2
- People of lower world come out in the evenings to drink and dance. F108.2
- Devil appears among youths who jest while they say their evening prayers. G303.6.2.3
- Devastating monster which comes out of a hole in evening. G346.0.1
- The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
- Riddle: white brother, black sister: every morning brother kills sister; every evening sister kills brother; they never die. (Day and night.) H722.1
- Riddle: bird nests on top of one cypress in morning, on top of another in evening. (Bird is the sun.) H725.1
- Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) H761
- Will lunch with Christ. Priest tells condemned man after confession that he will dine with Christ that evening. Mule that carries him to scaffold goes very fast and criminal says, "At this rate I shall lunch with Christ." J1261.3
- Hungry man eats intestines of fish next morning after refusing to do so the evening before. J1606.1
- Fools think evening star is morning star. Start morning journey evening before. J1772.7
- The slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening before. J2168
- The man behind the crucifix says "Good Evening" to the drunk man, who thinks Christ is speaking to him. K1971.7
- Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.) T113.1